La investigación en los hospitales / Research in the hospitals

ABSTRACT

The authors regard every hospital as a fertile field for scientific research, by which they do not, however, imply that it must be converted into a research center. They assert that both medical and biopsychosocial research and administrative research in hospitals should go forward in harmony with the medical care provided to the community and with medical education. For them research in hospitals is a necessary activity, which should therefore be endowed with personnel motivated to conduct it and with sufficient material resources and financing. The director of the hospital has a fundamental part to play in promoting scientific research in his establishment. They state that research work should be formally programmed on the basis of the circumstances of each institution and of priorities resting on objective criteria (Au)